This dazzling and prophetic album seems to foreshadow the disintegration
of the old world order and the splintering of traditional alliances that
have marked the start of the third millennium.
In this intelligent and spiritually attuned book, Stephen Catanzarite
reads Achtung Baby as an extended and universal riff on the Fall of
Man, showing this to be an album that Bono rightly called one "heavy
mother."